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[170] σ᾽, i.e. “σοι”: this elision does not recur (except possibly 21.122), but is sufficiently supported by “μ᾽” for “μοι”, which is found several times. Van Leeuwen (Ench. pp. 68 ff.) has shown good reason for thinking that it was originally commoner, but has been expelled as against the rules of later prosody. The sense is, ‘I have no mind to draw wealth for you,’ like a slave set to draw water from a well for his master. The fut. “ἀφύξω” beside aor. “ἤφυσα” is abnormal; it occurs only here, and perhaps should be “ἀφύσσειν”, or “ἀφύσειν” (“ἄφυσσα,” Od. 2.349).

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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